Free from Harm was proud to be a sponsor of the first ever Humane Hoax Online Summit, 2 day virtual conference which brought together 8 experts discussing various aspects of READ ON

By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Advocacy
Free from Harm was proud to be a sponsor of the first ever Humane Hoax Online Summit, 2 day virtual conference which brought together 8 experts discussing various aspects of READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
“The experience of watching them leave, the mamas wailing for a week, and the absence of their souls in the pasture haunted me. I’ve cried so many times over this READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
There is no such thing as “humane” animal farming. I’ve lived it; I know. Even on the smallest, most thoughtful of family farms like my grandparents’ farm, the animals will READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
Former slaughter-free dairy farmer and cheesemaker Andrea Davis had a change of heart after recognizing that her work, like all dairy farming, depended on bringing more and more babies into the READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
In retrospect, having been fooled by the allure of humanely slaughtered meat, I see the great irony of this labeling ploy. Marketers have to work harder to desensitize people who READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
“As a child, I have witnessed the cruel separation of mother and calf over and over again, and was told that it was normal and necessary. This couldn’t be further READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
“Before, I denied that I liked them. There was no other way. I wanted to earn a living. And now they are more like comrades. You are happy, you talk, READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
“Observing the deaths of so many animals, animals who enjoyed playing in the pastures and pens with their lambs, calves, and piglets, I wanted to protect them, to save their READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
“I am horrified to tell you my motto about our sheep breeding business. I would tell everyone, “They have a really great life, up until they no longer have one.” READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
“Cow’s milk IS baby calf growth fluid. No matter what you do to it, that is what the stuff is. Everything in that white liquid – the hormones, the lipids, READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
“There was a large room filled with goats, sheep, and alpacas, and they were all just standing there quietly, nervously looking at me. They were scared and disoriented. It really READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
Looking head on, you can’t see it. Humanely raising and slaughtering pigs seems perfectly normal. In order to see the truth, you have to look askance, just like a pig READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
“Lyman recalls the difficult moment he discovered that he could no longer turn away from the question of killing animals we have no need to harm at all: “Not, ‘Am READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
“there is now a very clear distinction between humane and inhumane farming. Humane farming is cultivating a plant-based diet. Inhumane farming is breeding any sentient being for production and consumption.” READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
“We have always treated our animals with love and gentleness. Anybody who visits the farm can see that. But being a dairy farm at all is still adding to the READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
“I have often heard the word “humane” used in relation to meat, dairy, eggs, and other products… I have always found this curious, because my understanding is that humane means READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
I looked beside me on the highway and there was a tractor trailer hauling pigs to Quebec. That was the day I made the connection. I looked these poor animals READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
To make a long story short, I used to be a very bad person. A terrible person. And I think that I still am, even to this day. Anything that READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
“Dr. Campbell spent his entire childhood, into adulthood, living and working on his family’s dairy farm, and undertook the China Study with the belief that animal protein was an essential READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
The following is an interview between Robert Grillo of Free From Harm and Bessie Von Messenger, a former animal farmer turned vegan activist living in Waco, Texas, who we recently discovered READ ON